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Over ** years of software experience with strong project management,
analytical, problem solving, developmental and support experience. Proven
abilities in full life cycle development of projects including Project
Management, System Design, Analysis, Code Development, Documentation,
Testing, Implementation and ongoing Customer Support.
Information Technology 29 years
ERP (Manufacturing, Distribution, and Financials) 27 years
AS/400 and S/3X 26 years
J.D.Edwards World 19 years
CA-KBM, SIM/400(Data3), MAPICS DB, GDS/400 7 years
CPIM Certification by APICS - American Production and Inventory Control
Society
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages : RPG400, RPGIII, RPGII, CL, COBOL
Hardware : IBM AS/400 iSeries, IBM S/3X, WANG VS
Applications : J.D.EDWARDS World, CA-KBM, SIM/400(Data3), MRPS38,
MAPICS DB, GDS/400, TURNOVER, MKS,
ALDON
EXPERIENCE
09/2013 - Present IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. Henry Schein - New York
Customization, maintenance and ongoing support of JD Edwards World
software. Analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of
various custom processes like AP Barcode Reconciliation, Credit Card Auto
Pay Customer Analysis, Electronic MSDS Reporting and Analysis etc. Also
modified reports and the Product Initiation Process to conform to
regulatory requirements.
02/2011 - 08/2013 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. American Water Works - New Jersey
Support JDE Payroll and Financial Systems. Development, Bug Fix and
Problem Solving, Documentation, Testing and Implementation.
05/2010 - 03/2012 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. United Technologies - Hamilton Sundstrand - Connecticut
This was a part time remote project. Integrated One World shipping
information to World custom files. Extensive modifications to the Invoice
Print program for the new facility in Poland to conform to the local laws.
Translated the wording for amounts from English to Polish language. Created
a section on the invoice to break down the VAT by tax rate and PLN
equivalents. Worked on Labor Proration calculations and output programs.
03/2010 - 02/2011 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. Penn Foster and The Princeton Review - Pennsylvania
Wrote programs for Custom Deferred Revenue system, interface between
Plateau and JDE to send student class schedules and collect class
activity for revenue recognition. Interface between Ektron and JDE to
generate Sales Orders, AR invoice and payment processing. Perform unit
test and develop user documentation.
02/2009 - 02/2010 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. Mckesson - Moore Medical Corp. - Connecticut
> Vendor Chargeback System modifications
> Order Summary and Shipment Reports
> Regulatory DEA Address Validations for Sales Orders
> Regulatory DEA Items Validations for Sales Orders
> Regulatory State Controlled License Validations for Sales Orders
> New Business Integration - Customer Upload, Customer Item X-Ref
Upload, Invoice Email/Fax, Consolidated Billing, ASN Send
Notification Emails
09/2008 - 10/2008 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. United Technologies - Hamilton Sundstrand - Connecticut
Technical Analysis, design, development and testing for an existing in-
house application for system performance improvement of embedded SQL
programs used for material inspection.
09/2007 - 07/2008 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. American Water Works - New Jersey
Functional and Technical Analysis, design, development, testing and
implementation of following:
> System performance enhancements for some custom batch and
interactive jobs taking excessively long to execute. Modified
RPG/CL programs and World Writers.
> Several system enhancements to programs e.g. Voucher Entry,
Account Ledger Inquiry, Match Open PO etc.
> For the integration of Elizabethtown with American Water - data
conversion for F06136, F06145, F06146 and F0627.
> Recreated Item Master, Branch Plant and Location files for the
cleanup project to standardize part numbers.
> Programming for month end inventory reconciliation for SOX
compliance.
09/2006 - 02/2007 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. Samsonite Corporation - Colorado
Data Conversion from JDE to SAP AFS for Purchase Orders and Bill of Lading.
Converted PO Header, Detail and Schedules in different states with
different rules for conversion with the provided field mapping to SAP.
02/2006 - 12/2007 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. Lindenmeyr Munroe - New York
Automate Credit Card payment processing in JDE. Create/modify system to
apply payments to specific Invoices. Interface with Alliance AuthExpress
for approvals. Batch creation, maintenance, review and settlement. Process
Batch Cash Receipts to update AR.
03/2006 - 05/2007 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. United Technologies - Hamilton Sundstrand - Connecticut
Functional and Technical Analysis, design, development, testing and
implementation of following:
> Several custom changes in the Purchasing and Finance module to
help implement their system in Turin, Italy. Major areas of work
involved Multi Currency PO Conversion, VAT Register Updates, MHV
Statutory Reporting of Vendor Parts etc.
> Integration of Customer Master on Kidde acquisition, major
manufacturers of fire extinguishers and smoke alarms.
> Automate extract and ftp of Vendor Quality information for Prism
eSilk with email alerts for job completions.
> Contract Billing - create Owner Pay Items for like contracts and
create Account Derivative Tables.
> Generic Data Load of Purchase Orders to facilitate the
integration process of PO's on new acquisitions.
> Modify the PO Receipts process to accommodate Customs Inspection
and tracking of Lots and Locations of such parts received for HS
Marston in UK and Netherlands.
09/2005 - 02/2006 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. Sterling Chemicals - Texas
Project Director for complete transition of onsite development and support
activities to offshore facility in Mumbai India supporting Sterling
Peoplesoft World (J.D. Edwards World, JDE) and AS400 needs effectively via
onsite/offsite model. The transition phase comprised of Discovery and
Implementation with the delivery phase ending with stabilization and steady
state. The major milestones were: Transition from existing resources,
Understand and Familiarization with systems / production environment, Build
connectivity / framework to offshore, Transition to offshore and Support
from offshore.
Major transition activities: Review AS-IS process and system environment /
Establish Knowledge Transition and service level objectives / Develop Issue
logging flow and resolution for Support and Project activities / Develop
communication plan / Develop roles and responsibilities matrix / Establish
telecommunication and infrastructure set up /
Develop customer expectations and visibility reports etc.
Efforts involved were : Define roles, responsibilities, working
relationships and expectations to the vendor / Effective Communication plan
- communicate explicitly and thorough status reports / Conduct meetings
with the senior executive team to review progress and future plans and
address concerns and issues in these meetings and get them resolved /
Single point of contact client-service provider / Define business process
for types of projects [support vs. development] / Upper management buy in /
Implement a Transparent Model that is customer-centric / Finalize the work
order that explicitly defines the financial terms and states Service Level
Agreements / Develop an effective delivery model from Inception to Delivery
and Ownership to Single Point Of Contact.
Modules Supported include Financial Suite (GL, AP, AR), Fixed Assets (Fixed
assets, job cost), Sales (ECS Version, Agreement Management), Inventory and
Distribution,
Manufacturing covering Accounting, Treasury, Customer Service and
Manufacturing departments with 50 users and supporting about 10 computer
applications, systems, interfaces and ETL tools, SQL Server, Access,
Excel, Lotus Notes, Crystal Reports, IBM Query/400, FASTR, Worldwriters
etc.
09/2005 - 02/2006 IBM AS/400 - RPG/ILE/CL
. Harry Fox Agency - New York
Onsite Project Director representing Horizon Companies for a large mass
remediation project for changing code in RPG / ILE programs carried out at
Horizon's offshore facility in Mumbai, India. Horizon Companies provided
RPG developers and technical managers working remotely from India. The
project scope involved complete analysis of grouping of programs using
common files by doing program explosions through Hawkeye generating an
explosion graph. The programs thus grouped were remediated to replace the
existing IO code with a call to the GET programs done by running HFA
supplied utility for each unit and any programming efforts required for
compilation. This modified code was intended to access an external database
bypassing the native DB2/400.
For the most part, developers were working with a custom code generating
tool and special procedures that could not be directly integrated into the
Change Management System. Consequently, coding was done working outside of
change management and results brought into the change management process
when ready for testing. All the documents like Code review, Unit Testing,
QA, Project Status Report, Weekly Status report; Conference Call minutes
etc were prepared in Horizon formats designed under ISO 9001-2000
Methodology customized to the HFA Darwin offshore project.
The deliverables involved Program explosion document, Task grouping
document, Program code review, Unit testing at program level, Program
integration testing of related programs and QA document at task level with
user signoff at each level.
01/2001 - 08/2005 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. Henry Schein - New York
Customization, maintenance and ongoing support of JD Edwards World
software. Analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of
several bolt on modules like Product Initiation where all the new Items go
through several levels of approval, reconciliation of Vendor Chargeback
System, various inquiries and reports on Sales History like Sales Erosion
by Territory, Customer Sales Summary by Market Segment, Salesman
Commissions etc. One major undertaking was integrating the information from
the legacy Warehouse System to JDE. The orders are entered in JDE and
further processing is done in the legacy warehouse system until shipment
confirmation. The sales update process was modified to update custom JDE
and legacy files. A new comprehensive Invoice Inquiry system was written
with exits to order detail, invoice summary, shipping box inquiry
indicating the line items shipped in each box with an option to host access
to find out tracking information from UPS.
OFFSHORE Coordination and liaison - Project Management in the capacity of
onsite coordinator with day to day support, project tracking, testing and
helping promote changes to production. Maintain weekly offshore resource
plan. Offshore facility has a team of twelve programmer/analysts working
out of Horizon office in Mumbai with one resident project manager.
05/2000 - 12/2000 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. Lindenmeyr Munroe - New York
Analysis, design, develop, test and implement Mill Debit System.
Developed program to maintain special price deals for certain items
supplied by mills for particular customers effective within a date range.
Created a batch process for open orders to recognize line items falling
under a deal and creating new detail line for cost adjustments to be
processed in the day end job stream for cutting mill debits in a work
file. Created month end batch process to consolidate debits for each mill
and create debit vouchers and auto post these for applying against
payments to mills.
10/1999 - 12/1999 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL JD Edwards GENESIS
Amtrol, Inc. - Rhode Island
Conversion of open receivables, open orders and sales history from JD
Edwards
GENESIS to Oracle Applications for an Amtrol subsidiary. Design,
development, testing and implementation of extract programs to extract
Payroll history, AR history, Employee data, Bill of Materials, General
Ledger etc. from legacy HFA/DATA3 to Oracle Applications.
02/1999 - 09/1999 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 7.3
. Wise Foods, Inc - Pennsylvania
Worked for JDE Business Partner at Wise Foods. Prepared high level and
detail Design documents and program specifications per JDE standards for
custom processes like Distribution Planning Maintenance, Process Buyback
Transaction Orders, Batch Tier Reimbursement to Chain, Master Distributor
Sales Order Entry.
Modified Invoice Print, Pick Slip Print programs for custom format and
information.
Developed custom shipment loading report. Developed custom Distribution
Planning Maintenance program to assign delivery, pick and ship time within
a date for sales orders.
Modified Receipts Entry program for customization. Developed several custom
reports.
12/1995 - 01/1999 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - JD Edwards rel 6.2, 7.3
Lindenmeyr Munroe - New York
Worked using JDE internals and techniques like Dreamwriter, Processing
Options, Data Dictionary, File Servers, Menus, Vocabulary Overrides, UDC
etc.
Extensive customization to Sales Order Entry, Purchasing, Inventory,
Financials to conform to business method and practices. Modified JDE base
programs, design and developed new programs for functionalities not
provided in JDE for business process and various reporting functions using
JDE database in conjunction with custom files. Currently working on JDE
release upgrade from 6.2 to 7.3 retrofitting all customization in release
7.3 code and upgrading custom code to work with the database of new
release.
o Modified Tag Physical Inventory process with new tag entry, edit and
variance reports whereby more than one ticket can be entered for an
item/location and counted quantities can be entered as pack and stock.
o Modified Invoice Print program to print on custom pre-printed form and
made changes to certain details for printing legend, ship date,
alternate items etc..
o Developed a version of Pick Slip Program to process Credit Pick Slips
for returns.
o Modified Purchase Order Print program to print on custom form and made
changes for printing of some details like alternate item number.
o Designed and developed Inbound/Outbound Transfer List for month end
reporting
of interbranch inventory transfers.
o Branch/Plant Duplication modified to duplicate more information
between branches for an item than currently done by JDE.
o AR Statements modified to print customer PO number alogwith Invoice
number.
o Inventory Journal modified to print extended description and
Location/Lot information.
o Extensive modifications to Item Price and Availability Inquiry.
o Took over incomplete and untested project for Salesperson Commission,
incorporated various functionalities, fixed bugs and implemented the
project.
o Designed and developed program for assigning PO numbers to Back
Orders.
o Designed and developed an item conversion process to change stocking
type and UOM for Roll items in item master and item balance and change
all sales and inventory history with new codes, cost and price
information.
o Developed and modified various custom data capture and reporting
functions like
o Cancelled Orders report by Branch, Daily Sales build for Customer and
Salesman, Daily Cost Variance report, Daily Sales Vs Budget report,
Sales Statistics, Product Analysis report.
o Applied and implemented various JDE SAR fixes.
o Developed interface between legacy CNG distribution system and
STERLING for the following EDI transactions : 810 - Inbound Invoices,
850 - Outbound Purchase Orders.
o Developed Vendor Interest System on the legacy CNG distribution
system.
06/1991 - 12/1995 IBM AS/400 - RPG/CL - CA-KBM, SIM/400(Data3),
MRPS38, MAPICS DB
SE Technologies, Inc. Stamford CT Senior Consultant - Systems Analyst
Davis Mead Fulfillment Services - New Jersey
Developed Order Entry program in ACCESS for field salesmen and created
interface
for downloaded items to CA-KBM on the AS/400.
Procter & Gamble (Giorgio Beverly Hills) - California
o Involved in the transition process to bring new fragrance lines from
P&G as Giorgio was bought over. Developed cross-reference programs for
Item and Customer Master.
o Developed programs for bringing in Open Receivables from P&G into
Giorgio AR system.
o Developed and modified programs in Sales Analysis system to produce
reports like Daily Order Tracking, Sales Vs Returns, Net Product
Sales, Book/Ship Recap, POS.
o Designed and developed Inventory Processing Interface between PkMS
Warehousing system and SIM/400 Manufacturing and Distribution.
o Designed and developed a periodic Invoice summary report system for
Account Executives which avoided printing multipart invoices.
Hardie Irrigation - California
o Daily maintenance of SIM/400 while other staff was concluding
conversion of legacy system.
o Implemented Export Documentation System.
o Rewrote existing Sales Analysis system so that users could request
their own reports with different selection and sequencing options.
o Developed many reports in the Forecast system to report information
to management.
Samsonite Corporation - Colorado
o Developed system to support Samsonite's requirement to log MPS changes
after a MRP run and explode these changes to gross component
requirements.
o System design, development and support of a comprehensive set of EDI
Translator interfaces between SIM/400 and PREMENOS. Interfaces were
developed to support the following EDI transactions :
. 830 - Planning Schedule With Release Capability
. 846 - Inventory Inquiry Advice
. 850 - Outbound Purchase Orders
. 852 - Product Activity Control
. 855 - Purchase Order Acknowledgement
. 867 - Product Transfer And Resale Report
. 870 - Order Status Report
Amtrol, Inc. - Rhode Island
Supported complete conversion of Amtrol's Data3 MRPS/38 System to SIM/400.
Designed, developed and documented interface between HFA's Order Management
System with SIM/400 Inventory module. The interface maintained item
balances of all associated transactions in SIM/400 and updated HFA's
Inventory System.
Darling Store Fixtures, Inc. - Arkansas
o Modified SIM/400 Sales Order Management to allow changes to product
composition at the time of order rather than having a special part and
associated BOM for each customer. MPS and MRP also modified to
reflect the changes in Sales Order Management.
o Designed and developed a comprehensive system to purge all history
data which is 13 months old and save in a history library. Provided an
inquiry ability on purged data with different keys like order number,
invoice number etc.
Ball Seed Company (Burpee) - Illinois
1. Extensive enhancements necessary for Ball Seed's successful
implementation of SIM/400. Supported release upgrade from
SIM/400 2.2 to 3.0. Migrate existing enhancements in SIM/400's
Purchase Order, Inventory, Sales Order and Work Order
Management.
Neuville Industries - North Carolina
Major modifications to SIM/400 to allow for one sales order detail line to
be shipped to various ship to addresses in split quantities. The bill to
customer would place a consolidated order for various items and each of
these items could be shipped to multiple addresses on different dates. This
involved creation/maintenance of sublines for a detail line and changes had
to be made to the process of picking. Also MPS, MRP and Work Order
Management were modified to reflect these changes.
Modify MPS and MRP generation and inquiry programs to utilize alternate
items with available inventory prior to creating Planned Orders for a given
item.
Modesto Tallow - California
Modified Sales Order Entry program to allow input of six decimal position
unit prices to calculate the extended price correctly.
Nutcracker, Inc. - Massachusetts
Developed Bill Of Lading print program with interface to Invoicing and
provided screen for selecting sales order numbers and date ranges.
Schlumberger - Texas
Developed Sales Bookings Report by product family, date range, item number
and area by salesman in SIM/400.
Wrigley Chewing Gum - Bridgeware, Inc. - California
Developed a system to download planning data from AS/400 to Bridgeware
MPSPlus and on completion of the planning function, communicate MPSPlus
Production Plan back to the AS/400.
Taylor Wharton, Inc. - Pennsylvania
Developed an interface between VERTEX Sales Tax system and CA-KBM Sales
Order Management and Invoicing System.
Bridon American - Pennsylvania
Modified DRP system transactions to allow a supplier of a supplier to ship
directly to a distributor and releive the DRP system of inventory like it
were a normal supplier to distributor transaction.
GE Railcar Services - Illinois
Extensive customization to SIM/400 package to provide new option for
Railcar Repair Estimate entry and allow this to be converted to a sales
order. Allow maintenance of Options file for selected items. Provide an
option for automatic creation of Final Assembly Work Order when estimate is
converted to sales order, perform component availability check and produce
a shortage report and create a Work Order Packet.
TRW Automotive (Lucas Body Systems) - Minnesota
Developed an EDI interface for transaction 850 Incoming Purchase Orders
from FUTURE 3 to CA-KBM. Upgraded CA-KBM release 1.3 to 2.0.
Rainbird Irrigation - California
Developed a component availability report between several
factories/warehouses in the same area based on the component requirements
from MRP.
12/1988 - 05/1991 IBM AS/400, S/3X - RPG/CL - GDS/400
United Software Services NJ Consultant - Systems Analyst
C-Tech (Systematics) Corporation - Pennsylvania
Developed and modified programs for integrated online billing system in the
modules for Cellular services billing, Marketing/Credit Bureau system,
Financial system and Point of Sales system.
Imrex Systems - United Kingdom
Programming team member responsible for maintenance of online general
distribution system. Bug fixing, enhancements and modifications to GDS/400
package.
Imrex Systems - New York
Modifications to the Order Entry and Purchasing module of GDS/400.
Systems & Software - India
Developed Skill Database Management system. Intensive training in RPGIII/CL
on IBM S/38.
05/1985 - 11/1988 AT&T 3B2/600 - UNIX BASED 4GL, WANG - C - COBOL
Datamatics Consultants Ltd. India Consultant - Systems Analyst
Baan Info Systems - Netherlands
Team member in the development and testing of order control system.
Wang Laboratories, Inc. - Massachusetts
Team member in quality control of PC WP+ on Wang PC.
Development of spreadsheet software and implementation of commands using C.
Datamatics - India
Development of stock and shares public issue system using COBOL.
Airline billing system for Abu Dhabi airport using COBOL.
Sales Analysis system for New Zealand Apple & Pear Marketing Board using
COBOL.
Intensive training in programming and systems management.
09/1981 - 09/1983 Shop floor - Non Software
Crompton Greaves Ltd. India Production Supervisor
Worked in assembly and packaging shop for fractional HP motors. Analyzed
work orders, scheduled shop floor activities, allocated labor and
materials. Coordinated with the sales department.
EDUCATION
BS 1980 Bombay University
MBA 1985 Bombay University
CPIM 1996 American Production & Inventory Control Society